Improvement in pens



WILLIAM A, Morse, for PHILADELPHIA, rLN'NsvLvANIA.`

` Leners Patent Nv.- 97,676, dated December` 7, Iseo.

IMPROVEMENT IN PENS.

The Schedule referred to in thseLetters Patent and making part of the saine.

Toallwhomfitmay concern:

Be it known thatI. WILLIAM A. Monsnjot the city' and'count-y oflbiladelphia, in theState of Penn- Sylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Writing-Pens; and I` do hereby. declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

.The nature of my invention consists in providing a common writing-pen witlrwhatl term an ink-retaiuing spring, whereby the pen will'retaiuor hold a. very much larger `quantity of ink when dipped into the same, thereby making the pen Vmuch more desirable,

and adding but a tritle tothe cost of thesame. To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construe? tion and operation. i Y

I` make my peus in any of the known forms, and of such material as is generally used for that purpose;

' butto make my pens hold a larger supply of ink when dipped'into the ,sama I attaoh to them a fountainspring, c, seen iu the annexed drawings. This 1 make of thin pensteel, or other metal, and it may be cut in any forni best adapted to dii'erent styles and sizes of pens.

I attach my fountain-spring by previously cutting slotsin the pen-blank before the same isformed', substantially as shown at Figure 1.'

Figure 2 is a view 4of the outside or convex surface Jof the pen A, with fountain attached.

'llbefountain c isatt-ached by passing the ends entirelythrough rthe slots g, previously out in the pen.

` A, and held to its place by bending the ends e over firmly against the opposite sidel of the peu, substantially as shown at iig. l; `or they may be bent in any direction that will insure its being immovable.4 This I ud very important, as movable fountains, now in use, verysoou work loose and become useless; the longest or curved end extending nearly to its extreme points, for the purposeheretofore specified.

The fountain c, Figure 3, I form up, in suitable dies, from a blank of any desirable shape, and leave one, two, or more ends or projections, e, turned at light angles, toA serve as fastenings in att-aching the saine to a pen.

The process of makingmy improved fountain-peu is substantially the same as used lin making other pens,and is fully understood by these skilled in the art.

The operation of using my fountain-pen is substan tially the same as -with common steel pens.

Having thus fully described theconstructou and operation offmy improved fountain-pen,

XVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-- .tersPatent, is#- 1. 4Iu`1n'1ovablyattaching a. fountain or ink-retainer toa pen, by passing one end of said fountain entirely through the pen, and clinching it upon the opposite side, substantially as shown at ligs. l and 2.

2. A pen-fountain orink-retainer, made with' one or more points or projections turned at right angles, substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified.

- WILLIAM A. MORSE.

` Witnesses: i

J oHN R. MACY, STEPHEN PRATT.- 

